Folding Kinetics of Large RNAs

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 160-173

  Geis, Michael ^a   Flamm, Christoph ^b   Wolfinger, Michael T ^b   Tanzer, Andrea ^a,b,c   Hofacker, Ivo L ^b   Middendorf, Martin ^a   Mandl, Christian ^d   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b,e,f   Thurner, Caroline ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

co transcriptional folding; folding pathway; folding trajectories; metastable structure; RNA folding kinetics

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH;

EID: 43049086258     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.064     Document Type: Article

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